This month Texas intends to execute three of its death row prisoners See their stories here:

Robert Pruett received a reprieve, with no rescheduled date so far!

Robert Pruett is scheduled to be poisoned to death by the government of the state of Texas on August 23, 2016 in retribution for the 1999 murder of prison correctional Daniel Nagle. (Hint: with inconclusive DNA testing results he is probably innocent.)

Jeffrey Wood is scheduled to be poisoned to death by the government of the state of Texas on August 24, 2016 in retribution for the 1996 murder of convenience store clerk Kris Keeran. He wasn’t even at the crime scene when the victim was killed! (Think Texas law of parties.)

Rolando Ruiz is scheduled to be poisoned to death by the government of the state of Texas on August 31, 2016 in retribution for the 1992 murder of Theresa Rodriguez, the doomed spouse of a murderous husband and his brother. And they got only life in prison!

I ask you, Governor Deal, to use your influence in our state to help stop the execution of Kelly Gissendaner. Ms. Gissendaner is scheduled to be poisoned by the government of Georgia next Monday, 09/29/15, for the 1997 murder of her husband Douglas Gissendaner.

The most important thing to know about this case is that Kelly Gissendaner did not kill her husband, which is accepted by all sides in the case. She conspired with and assisted her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, in her husband’s murder. However, the actual killer, Mr. Owen, is serving life in prison for committing this crime. The Gissendaner children had this to say about the upcoming execution of their mother for killing their father: “My brothers and I lost one parent. I don’t know that I can handle another one,” daughter Kayla Gissendaner said in an emotional videotaped statement, which includes similar sentiments from her brother Dakota. “It’s the most awful feeling to know that they could both be gone. I haven’t done anything wrong, but I feel like I’m the one being punished…”. Further, Ms. Gissendaner became a model prisoner, giving aid and support to many of her fellow inmates. How can justice be served by killing an accomplice with no direct role in the murder, whose children will be deprived of their only living parent by this execution and who has turned her life around after this horrible act?

Former Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno, as well as myriads of scholars, can find no evidence that the death penalty deters capital crimes. In fact, the warden of the famous Sing Sing prison believes that the death penalty exacerbates the violence in his facility by setting an example of cold-blooded killing. Recent studies show that the largest increase in capital crimes is in the state of Texas, the state which executes the most people. As for vengeance, that is the Lord’s, not the government’s.

Please, Governor Deal, please use your moral and political power in Georgia to help stop this killing of Kelly Gissendaner. If this execution goes forward, look around this country for the black armbands worn, and the church bells tolled, in protest of this injustice.

I ask you, Governor Fallin, along with celebrities, common folk and religious leaders from all over the world, to stop your state’s execution of Richard Glossip. Mr. Glossip is scheduled to be poisoned by the government of Oklahoma next Wednesday, 09/30/2015, for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese, owner of the motel Mr. Glossip was managing.

Only at the risk of impeachment did your state Supreme Court lift their stay of Mr. Glossip’s execution earlier this month. Notwithstanding the stay being lifted, your state’s refusal to reveal the provisioning details of the poisons you administer for lethal injections is not lawful. Your new combination of lethal drugs, midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, has never been used before and none of you know whether it can avoid the ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ that is forbidden by our federal constitution. Further, there is no FDA review of your poisons because they come from a non-regulated compounding pharmacy.

A two-week update: New evidence has surfaced showing that Mr. Glossip’s chief accuser (and the self-confessed actual murderer), made no mention of Mr. Glossip in contemporaneous interviews, nor did he implicate him until after a detective suggested the possibility as a way to avoid the death penalty himself. Former Oklahoma DA Andy Coats has said: “It’s a case where, personally, if I’d been DA at the time, I wouldn’t have filed the death penalty on it, because I don’t think it’s solid enough”.

As the chief executive of Oklahoma you must immediately halt all executions in your state, including Mr. Richard Glossip’s, until these issues are resolved.

Former Attorney General of the United States of America Janet Reno, as well as many other scholars, can find no evidence that the death penalty deters capital crimes. In fact, the warden of the famous Sing Sing prison believes that the death penalty exacerbates the violence in his facility by setting an example of cold-blooded killing. Recent studies show that the largest increase in capital crimes is in Texas, the state which executes the most people. As for vengeance, that is the Lord’s, not the government’s.

Please, Governor Fallin, stop this killing of Richard Glossip. He is an innocent man! If this execution goes forward, look around this country for the black bands worn and the church bells tolled in protest of this injustice.

According to the Associated Press earlier today, an appeals court in Oklahoma has halted the execution of Richard Glossip, set for later today. The court wants adequate time to consider new evidence of Mr. Glossip’s innocence.

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I ask you, Governor Nixon, to stop your state’s execution of Roderick Nunley. Mr. Nunley is scheduled to be poisoned to death by the government of Missouri next Tuesday, 09/01/2015, for the 1989 murder of Ann Harrison.

Roderick Nunley is clearly mentally ill. State medical examiners said that he has a “severe personality disorder” caused in part by a “seizure disorder from numerous [childhood] head injuries.” They also indicated cocaine use rendered Roderick “acutely intoxicated” during the commission of this crime. A man in his condition could not form intent to kill or even recognize that his behavior is wrong. In the United States of America we treat our sick, not kill them. As the chief executive of Missouri you must immediately halt the execution of Roderick Nunley to allow time for more humane considerations.

Former Attorney General of the United States of America Janet Reno, as well as myriads of scholars, can find no evidence that the death penalty deters capital crimes. In fact, the warden of the famous Sing Sing prison believes that the death penalty exacerbates the violence in his facility by setting an example of cold-blooded killing. Recent studies show that the largest increase in capital crimes is in Texas, the state which executes the most people. As for vengeance, that is the Lord’s, not the government’s.

Please, Governor Nixon, stop this killing of Roderick Nunley. If this execution goes forward, look around this country for the black bands worn and the church bells tolled in protest of this injustice.

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued a temporary restraining order saying Mississippi officials cannot use pentobarbital or midazolam, two drugs used to render prisoners unconscious. Mississippi law requires a three-drug process, with the sedative followed by a paralyzing agent and a drug that stops an inmate’s heart.

Jim Craig, a lawyer for two inmates, said Wingate gave the order verbally Tuesday in a phone conference with him and other lawyers. Wingate was supposed to issue a written order, but no written copy was yet available later in the day.

Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, wrote in an email that the order bars the state from using any drug to execute a condemned inmate. The state quickly filed notice Tuesday saying it will ask the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal to overturn Wingate’s order.